Removing a Virtual Machine

Removing a Virtual Machine from the List

If you do not need one of your virtual machines, you can remove it from the Parallels Virtual Machines list. You will be able to add it back to the list later.

To remove a virtual machine from the list, stop it if it is running and do one of the following:

• Drag the virtual machine from the Parallels Virtual Machines list.
• Right-click the virtual machine name in the Parallels Virtual Machines list and choose Remove from the context menu. In the displayed window, click Keep File.

Deleting a Virtual Machine from Your Mac

To delete a virtual machine from your Mac permanently, stop it if it is running and do one of the following:

• Right-click the virtual machine name in the Parallels Virtual Machines list and choose Remove from the context menu. In the displayed window, click Move to Trash.
• Delete its files from the disk manually. The virtual machine files are stored in the /Users/<Username>/Documents/Parallels/ folder or in the /Users/Shared folder by default. Each virtual machine is represented by a single PVM file.

Warning! Before deleting the virtual machine, make sure that none of the virtual machine files (like virtual hard disk) are used by other virtual machines.